Exploding the Chernobl / Wormwood Myth

Revelation 8:11.  The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died of the water, because it was made bitter. (RSV)

Russian:

Имя сей звезде ‘полынь’; и третья часть вод сделалась полынью, и многие из людей умерли от вод, потому что они стали горьки.  

Tsunami Text Translator  Name this star ‘Wormwood’ and the third part of the waters made wormwood, and many of the people died of the waters, because they became bitter.

 

Greek:

kai to onoma tou asteroV legetai o ayinqoV kai egeneto to triton twn udatwn eis ayiqon,

And the name   of the star          is called “The Wormwood” & came to be the third   of the  waters   into  wormwood,

kai polloi twn anqrwpwn apeqanon ek twn udatwn oti epikranqhsan.

and  many       of the men             died              out of the waters   for  they were embittered.

 

 

Literal:

kai to onoma tou asterov legetai (5743) o Ayinqov. kai egeneto (5633) to triton twn udatwn eiv ayinqon, kai polloi twn anqrwpwn apeqanon (5627) ek twn udatwn, oti epikranqhsan. (5681)

Name this star ‘Wormwood’ and the third part of the waters made wormwood, and many of the people died of the waters, because they became bitter. Tsunami Text Translator

 

Dear Dr Snyder,

As a follow-up to my last e-mail, I checked my Slavonic dictionary and Chernobyl, which is miswritten in this form and should be "Tchernopol", means "blackport".

Some people have mistranslated it as "black story", since there is a word in modern Russian similar to "byl" that means "story".  How this got confused with "polin" and "wormwood" requires a kind of biblical imagination that I don't possess.

Best wishes,

+Bishop Andrei

Brennan, Shawn Patrick "Andrei"

easternorthodox@canada.com

 

Gibor

1-Samuel 9-1

[1-Samuel 9:1] NOW THERE WAS A MAN OF BENJAMIN, WHOSE NAME WAS KISH, THE SON OF ABIEL, THE SON OF ZEROR, THE SON OF BECHORATH, THE SON OF APHIAH, A BENJAMITE, A MIGHTY MAN OF POWER. <<A MIGHTY MAN OF POWER>>: In Hebrew "Gibor Chayal". Yehudah Kiel says that this description applied to members of a special class amongst the people apparently of known heroes who had earned the right to  bear the title and receive special consideration. 

Cf.  "ALL THE  MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR" [2-Kings 24:14].

The word translated as "Mighty Man" from the Hebrew is Gibor. This is also found as the root of a personal name that we traced to Celtic Britain.  Note this extract from our book, Lost Israelite Identity. The Hebrew Ancestry of Celtic Races:

GEBER = Gabar of Menasseh.

In Celtic Britain To the northeast of Eboracum (York) and the Parissi were the GABRANTOVICES. Further north in the Caledonian region of the Gadeni (Otadeni) was the settlement of Gabrosentas. These names  bear the HEBREW ROOT "GEVER" or "GEBER" (GBR) from which are derived Hebrew words meaning male (gever); hero (gibor); important, usually rich, public benefactor  (gavir); and as a verb the root GBR denotes "to overcome". The Anglo-Saxons called an independent peasant a "gavir": (in Hebrew-Yiddish, "gavir" came to denote "rich benefactor"). The English word  GOVERN said to be derived from the Latin Gubernare (to steer, direct,guide, govern) ultimately  comes from the same root. The English usage is actually closer to the Hebrew original than it is to the supposed Latin source.  Similar cases, in which the English have adopted a word of ultimate Hebrew (or Semitic) origin and used it in a manner closer to its original employment than the intermediary did, occur quite frequently.  Pliny (N.H.6.7) reports the Gabri from Asiatic Sarmatia.

Ptolemy recalled the GABRETA in Baiern (Bavaria) whom Zeuss identified as a Celtic people and recalls the city of Gabromagus and Vergobretus (in territory of the Aedui of Gaul, Caesar, G.W.1;16). There was also a Celtic group called Guberni (Pliny N.H.4;17) between the Ubii and Batavi in Holland.

In ancient Ireland there was a tribe called Gabraige ( and a place named  Gabran (mod. Gowran in County Kilkenny) and a king of the Picts in northern Scotland had the same name.

The Lagin people gave their name to Leinster in east Ireland. They were also known as GABAIR. After being conquered by the Milesian Goidels, the Lagin Gabair joined forces with them and participated in raids on,  and settlement in, Scotland. They have been equated with the Gailian  or Galioin which names may well derive from the Golan in the Land of Israel since GEBER or GABAR appears to have once been an important family name in that general area. Amongst the southern Angles in Germany prior to the invasion of Britain were the GIRVII who gave their name to a region (Girviorum) in  England near Peterborough*.

In the Bible the root GBR is found in GABRIEL (Daniel 8;16) who was an angel. Gabriel in the Midrash (Numbers Rabah 2;10) was considered the guiding angel of the forces led by Ephraim who were the Tribes marching to the west of the Tabernacle: Ephraim, Menasseh, and Benjamin. The personal name  "GEBER" is also derived from the "GBR" word-root. The name "Geber" occurs twice and then in connection with the twelve princes King Solomon set to govern the twelve tribes of Israel:

"And Solomon had twelve officers over all  Israel....The son of Geber, in Ramoth Gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Menasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars.....

"Geber  the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land." (1-Kings 4:7,13,19).

The use above of the form "son of Geber" without any preceding appellation is unusual and perhaps indicates the beginning of a clan  of which GEBER was to be considered the founder and namesake. In continuation Scripture again mentions "Geber",

It is well to note the connections of these personages, Geber son of Uri, and (his son?) "the son of Geber", with the territories of Gilead and Yair (Jair). Gilead gave his name to the Galatae (Galadi) in Gaul and to the Caledonians in Scotland within whose area the township of Gabrosentas was located and place names recalling Iar (i.e. Yair) an eponymous ancestor are also found in Scotland as well as in Ireland.

Ptolemy's Map of "Arabia" are listed numerous place and historical ethnic names proving that Israelite tribes once ruled over all the area of northern Syria reaching at least to the Euphrates. Examples are the areas called RAHABENI (i.e. Reuben), MASANI (Menasseh), CAUCHABENI (i.e. Sons of Chauchi, i.e. of Haggi son of Gad), BATHANAEI (Bashan in Aramaic), CHALYBONITIS (Chalybes of Judah), and the cities of Belginaea and Belagaea (Belgae from Bela-g-h), and GABARA from Geber in the region of Bashan (Bathanaei) close to Masani (Menasseh ). The "House of Gabbar" were the ruling dynasty of "Yadi". Yadi was a Judaean enclave in northwest Syria ("Hamath which belonged to Judah" 2-Kings 14:28) known as "Yadi" (i.e. "Judah" in Assyrian) and also garrisoned by the "Dananu" from the Tribe of Dan and associated with the neighbouring Tribe of Gad since its other name "Smal" is synonymous with Zephion a clan of Gad and the Assyrians report the "Zephuni" as being in that area. The people of Yadi were taken into exile to an area of Armenia whereto exiles from the Ten Tribes were also taken. There was at least one additional town named GABARA recalled in an Assyrian inscription in what later became the Assyrian province of Magidu (i.e. Megido) in the northern Galilee  in the Land of Israel.

<<A MIGHTY MAN OF POWER>>: In Hebrew "Gibor Chayal". The second part of this expression is "Chayil" which may also be transcribed as "hail" for example as pronounced in Yemenite and Eastern Hebrew. This word "hail" in Hebrew means "strength" and it also can mean "soldier".  The English word "hale" was also once written as "hail" and connotes "strength" as in the expression "Hale and hearty". In addition in Old English this very same word "hale" or "hail" could mean "soldier". We thus find the same word pronounced almost the very same way having the very same two meanings in both Hebrew and Old English. 

[1-Samuel 9:2] AND HE HAD A SON, WHOSE NAME WAS  SAUL, A CHOICE YOUNG MAN,AND A GOODLY: AND THERE WAS NOT AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL A GOODLIER PERSON THAN HE: FROM  HIS SHOULDERS AND UPWARD HE WAS HIGHER THAN ANY OF THE PEOPLE.

Saul was physically tall and apparently also strong and handsome. He may also have been dark.

Remember what we wrote in our Commentary on Psalms:

  Psalms 7

Original Hebrew text (The first verse of  each Hebrew Psalm for some reason was deleted  in the KJ Translation): Shigaon Le-David: FROM DAVID IN ANSWER TO A MISCONCEPTION (S.R. Hirsch) THAT HE SANG TO THE ALMIGHTY CONCERNING THE WORD OF KUSH THE SON OF YAMINI (Benjamin). KUSH THE SON OF YAMINI: Traditionally is referring to Saul who came from the tribe of Benjamin. Why he is called "KUSH" I do not know. [Cush or "Cushi" meant someone from Africa or India and could also have been used as a nickname for someone of dark appearance]  Maybe he was of a dark complexion? He was known for his beauty and aristocratic demeanor as well as his exceptional size. Perhaps King Saul was tall, dark, and handsome?

Other explanations exist but this one is also possible. Just as blonds and red-heads existed amongst the Ancient Israelites so did darker individuals.

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